Thread by @startupdaemon

PAIN and SUFFERING Awareness Thread

Pain is your friend, suffering is not.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.
Pain pairs with growth, suffering – with stagnation.

Pain can be heroic, suffering – pathetic.

What's pain?
– Pain is the experience of physical harm to your mind-body. Pain is a friend which keeps you alive.

What's suffering?
– Suffering is the difference between imaginary outcomes you attach to and perceived reality. Suffering is an enemy, like all delusion.

Pain is hard to avoid. With years of practice, people can learn to endure enormous pain, but remain as susceptible as a child to other types of pain.

Suffering is easy to eliminate. Stop attaching & identifying. Let go of the outcome. Focus on what you control – your actions.

Pain is your friend in building grit, and can be used to great effect.

Welcoming painful physical stress feeds mental fortitude.

Workouts, martial arts etc. – it isn't rocket surgery.

Suffering clouds the mind. It shrivels, blinds and paralyzes, like a prison box.

You suffer because you refuse to accept what is.
You suffer because you don't take ultimate responsibility.
You suffer because you feel entitled that you deserve otherwise.

1. When you form expectations about what other people ought to be, you become needy and weak.

Understand that no-one's obliged to please you. If you expect otherwise, you deserve all the suffering you surely will get.

2. Whining about your circumstances won't get you far. Focus on the things you can change.

Ditch your wishful thinking and occupy your mind with improving yourself every day. THAT you can control.

3. Weaponize discomfort. Work out and test your mind-body with fasting to fortify yourself.

The energy of a good diet and workout plan will leave little room for suffering in your growing Mind.

Next missive is about pain, suffering and the Power of Mind.

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